Graduate Program

2008 Immunology Research in Progress

The "Immunology Research in Progress" seminar series is co-sponsored by Departments of Microbiology & Immunology, Pathology, and Pediatrics.

Presenters will be faculty members and senior postdoctoral fellows/graduate students who are in the areas of research for "immune regulation or host defense." For sign up or questions/suggestions, please contact Dr. Lynn Soong either by phone 409-772-8149 or via email.

Room: Levin Hall 2.222
Times: Wednesday, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

DATE NAME OF PRESENTER TOPIC 02/13/08 Lynn Soong / Lijun Xin View Flyer Modulation of dendritic cell function by intracellular pathogens 02/20/08 Antonella Casola Modulation of innate immune responses by human metapneumovirus 02/27/08 Dorothy Lewis Cytokine storm, functional Tregs and Granzyme B induced by mitogenic CD28 in human TH1 cells 03/05/08 Yuanlin Dong Decidual NK cells and human implantation 03/12/08 Janice Endsley / Alison Hogg Regulation of antimicrobial CTL activity by common γ-chain cytokines 03/19/08 Nagaraja Thirumalapura Protective Heterologous Immunity against Ehrlichiosis 03/26/08 Mark Estes Neonatal animal model for tuberculosis vaccine development 04/02/08 Warren D'Souza, UC San Diego (FACULTY CANDIDATE) Regulation of CD8 T cell Activation and Survival 04/09/08 Roberto Garofalo Virus-specific immune pathways in paramyxovirus infections 04/16/08 Peter Melby, UT San Antonio Health Center (FACULTY CANDIDATE) Regulation of Hamster Immune Responses to Parasites 04/23/08 Miles Cloyd / Jiaxiang Ji Regulation of host immune responses to HIV 04/30/08 Wendy Brown, Washington State U Infection-induced deletion of antigen-specific T cells as a strategy for immune evasion in bacterial persistence 05/07/08 Yasuhiro Suzuki, PhD (FACULTY CANDIDATE) IFN-γ-mediated resistance in the brain against Toxoplasma gondii, an obligate intracellular protozoan parasite 05/14/08 Allan Brasier NF-κB regulatory pathways in viral infection 05/21/08 Jiaren Sun Investigation of liver-specific responses to HCV proteins 05/28/08 Kent Tseng/Tomoki Yoshikawa Innate immunity and SARS pathogenesis 06/04/08 Meer Gupta TBA 06/11/08 Mohammad Saeed Role of host cell signaling in Ebola virus entry 06/18/08 D. Mark Estes / Gregory Whitlock Identification of protective antigens and host effector mechanisms to B. mallei 06/25/08 Gregg Milligan TBA

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